[3] In 1850, Reese staked out claims for land in Spanish Fork, Utah Territory.
Enoch and his brother John Reese opened a store in Salt Lake City about 1850.
[4] In 1851 Reese settled in the Carson Valley, then a part of Utah Territory, along with his brother John.
[5] They established a sawmill and gristmill called Mormon Station en route to the California mines, it being the first permanent nonnative settlement in present-day Nevada.
[6] In 1857 Reese was in the hand-cart company of missionaries headed east from Salt Lake City bound for missions in Europe.